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Daru, a veteran Korean-born painter who has spent many years in New York, offered a beautiful collection of paintings recently at Art Mora in Chelsea. Inevitably, when we see work like Daru’s in a place like New York, we are faced with a matter of influence—does her subject matter and style come from … Continue reading »

In a recent visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TJ Khayatan and a group
of friends apparently decided to test the limits of what contemporary art viewers will
take seriously. The teenager laid down a pair of glasses in one of the galleries and
walked away. When people began to gather and photograph the ‘work of art,’ he … Continue reading »

Hee Sook Kim. Paradise Between No. 3. 2015. Oil and acrylic on canvas with Crystal. Image courtesy of the artist.

Hee Sook Kim is a painter and printmaker born in Korea but now based in the Philadelphia area, where she teaches at Haverford College. Her excellent show at Causey Contemporary consisted of works made with oil, acrylic and crystals. Her art balances between the humanly decorative and … Continue reading »

From the concrete stairwell, we watch foam bubbles of saliva trickle out of the woman’s lips, imperceptibly trembling around the slick edge of a plastic mouthpiece. She is still. Thin plastic wires center her and constrain her movements. Look around and watch the two other women blink slowly, breathe heavily, as they are … Continue reading »

Hayoon Jay Lee came to America from Korea in 1989. She was not trained in art in Korea, where she studied accounting. Settling in Maryland, Lee went to the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), earning a BFA in 2007 and an MFA in 2009. While at MICA, she studied a broad … Continue reading »